International Ladies Garment Workers, Benjamin Schlesinger, President, Records, 1914-1923

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Correspondence, form letters, circulars and subject files relating to Schlesinger's second term as president, June 1914 to January 1923. Topics covered in these materials include union organizing; strikes, labor disputes, working conditions, and other labor issues in the women's garment industry, particularly in New York City; inter-union relations; relations between manufacturers' associations and the union; efforts by Schlesinger and others to form an alliance of garment workers' unions; discussions with foreign garment workers' unions; education for workers in New York City; and Jewish war relief efforts during World War I.

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Finding Aid: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/KCL05780-009.html

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International Ladies Garment Workers, Benjamin Schlesinger, President, Records, 1914-1923